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Old 11-July-2009, 07:59 AM
frankuitaalst frankuitaalst is offline
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Default Binary planets

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Originally Posted by mugaliens View Post
Given the billions and billions of stars, however unlikely for it to occur in any one instance, it becomes exceedingly probably that there are millions of binary planets out there.
I agree Mugs .
In a crowded environment capture is surely possible . But also the "de"capture , stealing is possible , as is shown in the animation in the link hereunder .

http://www.orbitsimulator.com/cgi-bi...1246783909/3#3

Last edited by frankuitaalst; 11-July-2009 at 08:00 AM.. Reason: typo corr
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